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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are so euphoric about these idiots..Let us think again.. Reagan was an idiot too.
Being overconfident is a mistake we cannot make. Under 100 days left, anything can happen, and we need to be prepared that
these people will be playing very very dirty. Because they will. We ain't seen nothing yet....They are awful, mean, and vicious beyond belief.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Pretty lousy president but people are waxing nostalgic because the current crop of Repukes are even worse...knr
phantom power
(25,966 posts)pnwmom
(108,955 posts)Stuart G
(38,410 posts)easily find another billion or so to throw into the pot. And it won't even hurt their bank accounts. If people become saturated by this stuff by the end of September, many people will turn off their TVs and radios and not be affected..maybe...Maybe our side will have
convinced the middle how dangerous the idiots are, and those billions won't count...Maybe..Maybe not..
spooky3
(34,401 posts)to keep certain groups from voting, and now have the free rein to do so.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)... isn't running against Jimmy Carter. ( A VERY great person, but not much of a hardball politician.)
You can stop wringing your hands now.
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)Made that same point yesterday evening in a telephone discussion. And my parents loved loved loved Jimmy Carter. In one year we went from a calm 'viewing of' the CBS evening news to my dad screaming "YOU JERK" every time Reagan appeared on the CBS Evening News.
This isn't Carter v. Reagan. It's FDR (Depression Era, few fundamental changes such as SS were wildly popular - today the Recession and Affordable Health) vs. Landon.
That said - I don't think the original poster is wringing their hands. Anyone who has ever played a competitive sport and played to win - the final period/quarter is where you push the hardest . . . especially when you are up. It's then when you win.
We also have a real problem in PA - and no end result on that one (disenfranchisement of 1.6 millon people) until almost the end of September. Ohio is screwing around with the voting hours of blue districts . . . There's some shenanigans in play here.
Stuart G
(38,410 posts)But we must never underestimate the ability of our opponents. We must stay focused no matter how incompetent they look. The last 60 days could change things. It may not, but it could. I know that Obama is a better player than Carter. We will see. I just hope they are as incompetent the whole time, not just this time
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)And we can't underestimate how they cheated on 2000 and 2004. It's their propensity for cheating that worries me.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)I was thinking recently of how me and my roomies groaned, booed and gave the TV the finger every time Reagan came on. We couldn't believe he got elected.
That said, I am cautiously optimistic. It is the Republican history of cheating that worries me.
a la izquierda
(11,791 posts)sounds like my reaction to Mitt and Paul at every commercial (except it's not "You Jerk," but "F*@$ You!" I live in Ohio, so you can imagine how many time I see those two jagaloons on the TV.
There's not a whole lot of language filters in my house (two adults from New Jersey and no kids).
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Just me and my 25 year old daughter. No language filter here!
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)To the undecideds anyway... not us. One was a well liked movie star and the other was "the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with".
I don't think Romney gives anyone the "warm and fuzzies".
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)Bush's candidacy DID start that stupid idiotic narrative.
The people who fell for it would have used that very same reasoning to support Warren G. Harding.
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)for one of these candidates anyway. Not even coffee. Personally, Romney doesn't even look like somebody I'd want to have a bottle of spring water with. But the "likeability" quotient isn't what makes Romney dangerous this time. It's Citizens United.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Stuart G
(38,410 posts)another political pundit on our side, this morning, on Stephanie Miller's show, said the same thing about Ryan...I am sure some of you heard what I heard..
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Raygun was the ideal political candidate. He was an actor who could read a script and he almost never went off script. For his handlers it was the next best thing to having their hand up the back of a puppet. If reporters asked Raygun a question, he would simply repeat some canned statement.
Ryan's problem is that if reporters ask him a question, he's going to tell them what he thinks, and that's what's going to get him in trouble.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Big difference. That said, there is so much racist hate out there that we can't take anything for granted.
cali
(114,904 posts)FYI, I'm not euphoric. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Better to speak for yourself.
PayAttentionFool
(57 posts)A. Hitler and he would still be guaranteed 45-48 percent of the vote.
That is what he will get come Nov, 45%-48% of the vote, yes this country is that divided and racist.
rMoney has a big advantage 30+ years of the Southern Strategy and the gutting of education in the red states for the last 30 years also helps Mitt.
Ignorant, Superstitious people are easier to control and deceive.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Plus having been a movie star, people were comfortable that they knew him well and had known him for decades.
H.W. not only served in the military but was the youngest U.S. pilot to survive being shot down in the Pacific during WWII. He was also former head of the CIA (if only for a short time) and had run for President himself, having passed the Commander In Chief hurdle on his own.
This ticket is not Reagan/Bush. Not even close.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)And his "people skills", consisted mainly of using racist dog whistles to attract the bigots.
Don
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)by the primary and he was not in the position of strength like President Obama.
catbyte
(34,326 posts)Although, it IS looking much better now that Ryan is on the ticket. If Medicare fades as an issue, however, we can pivot to Ryan being Mr. Personhood. He co-sponsored a Personhood bill in Congress. Christ on a cracker Romney is dumb. There's a 16 point gender gap now. I predict it will be at least 25 points by November 6. If we can counteract GOP voter supression & get the word out about Governor Let's-Kill-Planned-Parenthood & Representative Personhood, the President will be re-elected in a landslide based on female outrage alone.
Diane
Anishinaabe in MI